Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment XIX

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Amendment XIX Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE XIX.*
*Adopted November 24, 1982.
A tillerman in a city fire department at a fixed yearly salary, payable monthly, and holding office during good be-
havior, is within this provision. 50 C. 546. One holding under a reappointment is not affected. 54 C. 174. A city council
serving without compensation voted to pay to a committee of the council for the ordinary services of such a committee;
held void. Id., 443. Purpose of this article; does not apply to judges. 78 C. 550. Nor prevent city from passing general
ordinance increasing salaries of policemen; 81 C. 664; nor prevent a town school committee from increasing salaries
of school teachers all of whom were already under contract; 95 C. 204; nor prevent general assembly from authorizing
municipal corporations to increase compensation in contracts for performing public works where war had raised costs
upon which estimates were made. 106 C. 658. Act permitting furnishers of material or labor to recover from town in
amount not exceeding total it agreed to pay principal contractor held not to violate this provision. 109 C. 547. Cited. 116
C. 12; 157 C. 179; 201 C. 377.
Cited. 40 CS 539.
(Extra compensation to elected officials and public contractors prohibited;
exception.)
Section 2 of article eleventh of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
Except as provided in this section, neither the state nor any political subdivision of
the state shall pay or grant to any elected official of the state or any political subdi-
vision of the state, any compensation greater than the amount of compensation set at
the beginning of such official’s term of office for the office which such official holds
or increase the pay or compensation of any public contractor above the amount spec-
ified in the contract. The provisions of this section shall not apply to elected officials
in towns in which the legislative body is the town meeting. The compensation of an
elected official of a political subdivision of the state whose term of office is four years
or more may be increased once after such official has completed two years of his term
by the legislative body of such political subdivision. The term “compensation” means,
with respect to an elected official, such official’s salary, exclusive of reimbursement
for necessary expenses or any other benefit to which his office would entitle him.